Vanity Fair's Hollywood
By: edited by Graydon Carter and David Friend ; with text by Christopher Hitchens.
Contributors: Carter, Graydon.; Friend, David, 1955-; Hitchens, Christopher.
Publisher: Viking Studio
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles.
Other titles: Vanity fair.
Description: A collection of classic photographs, essays, and caricatures depicting a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth, and mystery.
Table of contents: title: Without the cane and the derby : poem on C. Chaplin : May 1922 / Carl Sandburg; title: The great Garbo : February 1932 / Clare Boothe Brokaw Luce; title: Things I never knew till now : March 1932 / Walter Winchell; title: Sex appeal : July 1929 / D.H. Lawrence; title: The phenomenal growth of movies : June 1925 / Frank Peale; title: San Simeon's child : April 1995 / Martha Sherrill; title: Idol gossips : Louella Parsons vs. Hedda Hopper : April 1997 / Amy Fine Collins; title: Starlight, starbright : profile of Joan Crawford : February 1936 / Margaret Case Harriman; title: When Sue was queen / Peter Biskind; title: A school for movie villains : October 1915 / P.G. Wodehouse; title: Is your little girl safe? : on silent-screen vamps : September 1918 / Dorothy Parker; title: The gangster and the goddess : Stompanato/Lana Turner murder case : April 1999 / Patricia Bosworth; title: When Liz met Dick : on the making of Cleopatra : April 1998 / David Kamp; title: It happened on Sunset / Christopher Hitchens.